Arizona weekly citizen., 1887-02-19
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PRESCOTT, Feb. 15.-House-Webb l gave notice of bill defining the duties | of the commissioner of immigration re-
 Fisher's quarantine bill was lad on the table, also Bakers bill to prevent Texas fever.
 The bill making railroads liable for stock killed, passed to engrossment.
 smiths water right OIll IS m com mittee of the whole. bitter hsht IS being male over 1t, IL passed by vote of II to 9, Andre Ss gave notice to reconsider the vote.
 Council passed the code commission bill concerning frauds and fraudulent conveysnces.
 Blipp introducei a bill disincOrpora- ting cites and towns, complete Tn every detaIl. Ordered printed.
 The penal code was rsconsidered and passed ,.,
 Cornwall introduced a bill defining the boundary between MohRve and Yavapsi counties.
 Also a bill prohibiting the board of supervisors letting contracts Tor put lIshing boards proceedings.
 Stevens introduced bill authorizing Apache County to pay back to the treasury of the Territory what IS left of the twelve thousand dollars sppropria- ted by the l3 legislature for building road and bridge in that county. The bill abolisbing county courts was read and referred to the judicial com mittee. There IS no prospect Of hgnt over 1t.
 PRESCOTT, Feb. 1.-The House pass cd. by vote l3 10 4 the bill abolishing county courts, to take effect immediate ly. IL will pass the council also. Council bill abolishin0 the distinction | between sealed and unsealed instru- ments. sbolishing scrolls for seals. The council refused 10 concur on the | penal code placing powder houses a quarter of mile from the high | ways,
 Council also refused to pass the penal code bill to the third reading but this may be reconsidered tomorrow. If moi the bill will be killed.
 SAN FRANoIsco, Feb. l5-Expolice | officer Burdett has filed an affidavit with the Police Commissioners, in which be charges Capt. Douglass with blackmail, and SeBgt. Fleming with peI!ury. The latter having given testimony tO exoner- ate the proprietor of house of III fame, who was on trial for robbing visitors to her place, and finally counselor Clarke I with having used his position to inhu- ence members of the police department for political purposes.
 NEW YORK, February lJ.--The Stars London cablegrar says: leiesrsms from the European cApItOls Gre still more warlike. Berlin dispatches assert that the GeTnan government bas re- ceiysd positive advIces Of the continued l conceutr-tIun of troops iu direct contra 1 dlciioa 10 instruc;lCDs alleged Co have b4en issued by General BO llCnger. Late | Paris telsgrams confirm the reports | that Alsace- Lorraine garTlsOns are D-- jog brought up tO a War strength and give additional accounts of heavy move ments of German troops to guard the l French frontier 4 Vienna dispatch states thst the ministry of war have sud | denly stopped work on French and Rus sian contracts for magazine rifles. reyolv- CTS, munitions of war. All the factories are now working exclusively on small | arms and ammunition for thej Aus trian government. The press censor -hip at St. Petersburg has tn 1 great extent q ned up the scu-ces If h. formation, bat ibroJ gh R0umBnian cIuf @ | nels II IS learned that two Russian army corps are completing their concentra- | ticns in the southeast; and thst heavy endorsements are gong from the In- terior to the southwest. From Con stantinople We learn that M. ZInkCiT is | urging the Porte to press the powers flr decision on his proposals for settle ment of the Bulgarian question. Bulgarian representatives acting nn EGvices of Sir William White, are evading definite reply and awaiting the developments of events. Zslkoff s proposals are supported by Russia and | opposed by Austria, England and Italy. | ZankOff has declared that no settlement short Of division of Bulgarian author | ity between the existing re Sency and re | presentatives of Russia, wi.l be accepted | by the latter government. The opinion prevails at sCOnstantinOple that Zankofl will soon return to Bulgaria 10 stir up Gn insurrection and afford Russia an excuse | for intervention.
 WAsHISGToS. February 1.-The pres | ideut is having coDsiderEb trouble in | securing suitable railroad men 10 serve as commissioners under ;Le interstate commerce bill. He finds that the class he would ike are drawing salaries as Il general managers and supeTinteudeuts ranging all the way from Sl2.OO0 and and Sl5.00O to $25. 600 year. The pres l IdeDt has als determined that memuers | of the commission shall Ee young men. He said. "I want men on tho Board who are sound phy sicslly Rs well as mentally. | 1 want. in other words, mtn who can make If nect ssBry, hurried trips to Cali forDia. solve intricate problems and re turn m hurried fashion tO Washington, stopping on the way for few days in | ChIcagO, do some work there ard sill not feel the fatigue of the trip" There w.l be R great deal of travelling and 0 | great deal of hard work. IL glll be no sinecure. Whoever takes place on the | Board will earn every dollar q his sal grv.
 NEW YORK, Feb. l4-Hcn. Samuel | Weed, who has just returned from visit to President Cleveland at Wash ingtOn says that he certainly will not succeed Manning as Secretary of the ! Treasury, nor has he the slightest in | formation as to whom the president intends appointing. Weed said he be- lieved President Cleveland would ad- here to his letter of acceptance and would refuse to be 6 candidate fr second term.
 VIENNA. February l4.-Herr Tissea, the Hungarian premier, arrived here yesterday. After conferring with the emperor, he attended meeting Of 0 council of ministers called to consider the question of 8n early assembling of delegations, and the amounts of credit to be asked. The staff O., the Steyr rife works is quedrupled, and work has been gwen to other factories. Repeat ing rifles cannot be supplisi for the whole army until the first of May.
 PARIS, February IA dispatch from St, Petersburg says: General Won Schvelitz. the German ambassador to Russia, recently sounded the czsr as to whether be would remain neutral ID the event of war between Germany and France, and the czsr refused tO make an announcement respecting so grave matter.
 OAKLAND. February 14-FrRnk Gil christ. aged l9, employed at the Gian. Powder Works at Flemings point, WAS eau ght in belt around s fly wheel ihis morning and instantly killed. His head